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24.01.2022 - 16:26 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Coronation Street icon Amanda Barrie reckons she would have been sacked from the soap if she had come out in the 80s.
The legendary actress, 86, played Alma Halliwell throughout the decade but never told fans she was gay.
Carry On star Amanda refused to publicly confirm her sexuality over fears some of her co-stars would have refused to work with her because of her sexuality.
Speaking on the Coronation Street podcast, she said: “Every week I would come up to the office. They’d go, ‘You’re coming out.’ ‘Am I?’
‘Yeah, they’ve got this thing on you.’
“I spent a fortune on solicitors because believe me if that had happened to me at that time they would not have kept me in Coronation Street and I will stand by that.
“Not because of them [the producers] but because of people, who shall be nameless, who would’ve said, ‘I’m not working with her.’
“Now, I fall about, I said, ‘Bloody hell, are they opening a gay club in Coronation Street now?’
“What’s going on? How many are they? They’re all coming out. Why didn’t they come out when I was there? I good have had so many hooks if they’d come out.
“I was ahead of the game.”
Amanda is still very proud of her time in the long-running ITV drama, and she is even one of the few stars to own a cobble from the famous Manchester street.
She spilled: “I was always wanting a bit of Coronation Street memorabilia.
"When Bill Roache had his trial that was in London I went to get a car late at night after we’d been filming, they’d taken me down in a car, and Vinnie the prop man said, ‘There’s a present for you. It’s under a tea cloth in the car.’
"And I got into the car and it was a cobble. It was because they’d been putting a ramp in for disabled people and went they put them back they couldn’t fit it
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Former Coronation Street actress Amanda Barrie feared she would have lost her job if she’d come out as bisexual earlier on during her time on the soap, she has revealed. After joining the ITV soap in 1981 playing character Alma Sedgewick, the 86 year old waited until two years after she left Coronation Street in 2003 to address her bisexuality, believing before then acknowledging it could have harmed her career.